KLINSMANN AWARD

We have to start today's section by sending our best wishes to Brazil's Neymar, who is out of the tournament with a fractured vertebra from a rather agricultural challenge by Colombia's Juan Zuniga.

Having said that, we have to applaud points of difference in our Klinsmann Award for best dive of World Cup 2014.

Neymar certainly brought us one this morning. To start with, a tackle wasn't even involved - in fact, no opposition player was within 20 yards of him when this happened.

Thiago Silva had just opened the scoring for the Selecao, and the Brazilian players headed for the corner to celebrate.

Neymar was late to proceedings, and he raced to join in, only for his feet to go from under him, as you can see here.

For imagination and, as Ned Zelic would put it, fantasy and individual brilliance, we dip our lids to Neymar for a cracking Klinsmann entry.

Three Blind Mice

Righto, Carlos Velasco Carballo, we need to have a talk.

You took charge of the Brazil-Colombia match, which everyone was touting as a likely cracker of a quarter-final.

What did you do? You had some temporary amnesia, where you forgot where the cards were in your pocket as Brazil kicked James Rodriguez off the park in the biggest hack-fest since Pele had his thighs re-arranged by Portugal in 1966.

Then, you rediscovered the cards in time to give a yellow to Rodriguez for a slide tackle where he didn't make contact, and then to top it off, you only gave goalie Julio Cesar a yellow for bringing down Ham-ess for a penalty, when he should have been given an early bath. Sorry, Carlos, it's not us, it's you. Red card (0/10).

Image of the day

They are playing for sheep stations at the World Cup, and when it's over it definitely hurts.

This pic of Brazil's David Luiz calling for the crowd to applaud the vanquished James Rodriguez of Colombia is our image of the day from Brazil.